Students and others involved in health care in Alaska asked lawmakers to agree to fund the program in the upcoming special session.
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Alaska’s state budget is signed, but programs to lower electricity costs and provide scholarships remain unfunded
Both Gov. Dunleavy and legislators from every caucus have said they want to fund these programs. But legislators haven’t agreed on how to fund them.
State announces which services will cease in shutdown; industry leaders call for legislators to act to avert losses
Travel industry advocate says a shutdown would be “effectively cutting the cord of our microphone right now as we are saying to the world: ‘Go big, go Alaska.'”
Alaska lawmakers weigh becoming only state to not fund medical education
Sixty-one percent of Alaska medical students who graduate from the WWAMI program return to Alaska. That’s higher than the national average of graduates who stay in state, but it’s lower than what Alaska leaders would like to see.